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profits in the market for Eurodollars which began in the late fifties and 

multiplied through the 60s . . . British bankers themselves controlled 

relatively small funds, but they knew how to make money out of other 

people’s money."

The Eurodollar market, a new development in "created money" is 

monopolized by the above firms.

Eurodollar Empire

"Today, together with allies on the island of Manhattan (Britain’s most 

important piece of real estate), the British Empire controls the entire 

$1.5 trillion Eurodollar financial market, another $300-$500 billion in the 

Cayman Islands, Bahamas, and $50-$100 billion in the Hong-Kong 

Singapore "Asia-dollar market". . . . Consider the $1.5 trillion Eurodollar 

market an "outlaw" market in the U.S. dollars over which this nation has 

no control. Here control and profits are overwhelmingly in the hands of 

London banks, who set the terms of lending and the interest rate on 

this mass of American dollars in relation to the London Interbank 

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Rate (LIBOR) . . . U.S. banks like Citibank (New York City), on whose 

board of directors sits the powerful British financier, Lord Aldington, 

collaborate openly in this market. At the same time, British banks 

including the known central bank for the world’s drug trade, the 

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, pour into America to devour U.S. 

banks. In 1978 the Hongshang (Ed.--Hongkong and Shanghai Bank) 

took over New York’s Marine Midland Bank, the state’s 11th largest 

commercial bank. . . The British also control the creation of American